Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 Birth and New Birth
Chapter 2 California and Bust
Chapter 3 Dominions of the Divine Sovereign
Chapter 4 An “Evangelical Sherman” Crosses the Seas
Chapter 5 The “Flaming Torch” Burns
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the Author

Douglas D. Tzan is the director of the Doctor of Ministry and course of study programs and assistant professor of church history and mission at Wesley Theological Seminary. He is also an ordained elder in the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church and the senior pastor at the Sykesville Parish (St. Paul’s and Gaither United Methodist Churches).

Reviews

Methodism’s rise to globalism in the nineteenth century is a progenitor of Pentecostalism’s worldwide expansion in the twentieth century, and no single figure is more central to the former than the rugged, revivalist missionary, William Taylor. Part independent actor and part Methodist connectional super-hero, Taylor relentlessly traveled the methodist, imperial, and transportation networks of the world in search of converts. Tzan tells Taylor’s controversial story of transcontinental mission and revivalism with unprecedented thoroughness and clarity, and successfully locates his extraordinary life in a bewildering range of national and international contexts.
*David N. Hempton, Harvard Divinity School*